The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-05
eOms H1'N5LE EXAMPLES wHlcr,l
ILLUSTRATE ITS POWER.


Faith Kill Quite aS Potent ~ Faith
Cure-ETec:s of Practical Joka
Sentenced to Death--Cen. Johnston,s
stOry-A Terrified Porter.
Some time ago girl, about 16 years of
age, had a prescription made up ut a
chemists. The prescription was q douhlo
one-part being for internal use, and palt
for external application only, Tho l,sn.,i
red "Poison" label was affixed Ia the
bottle containing the lotion, and d ycrbaI
caution was also given. The girl having
been under medical treatment for some
time previous was permitted to take nnd
apply the medicine herself; and so carefpl
was she that her precautions to avoid mis-
takes were the subject of frequent corr
msnt and occasional banter. One day n
male cousin, having unfortunately re-
solved to play her practical joke, trans
posed the labels on the bottles--which in
other respects were not very much unlike
soon after the girl had taken her iirss
Dose
In an apparently careless way her a.
teution was directed to the bottles nnl
to her horror, she discovered TINT s,is
must have drunk some Of the lotion
Within half an hour she had frightened
herself into the belief that she g.as
poisoned. She complained OF buruinr
sensation in the throat and stomach, OF
collie, and other symptoms of poisOnirl.r
A little later she was seized with an OYER
powering tendency to sleep. Tho GOctor
was summoned in haste. He heard tho
girls story, and applied such remedies as
he thought proper. But the girl grew
worse. She was sinking so rapidly that
at last the frightened and hitherto silc:ls
culprit confessed what he had done. AZ
first the girl did not believe him; and i5
was not until the doctor had taken largo
dose from the red labeled bottle that shc
was convinced. Then she began to re-
cover, and in O fey aoU-s the immediate
effects Of the practical joke had left her.
THOUGHT SHE WAS PARALYzED.
A wen authenticated case is told OF q
young lady who for seven years or moro
has been under the impression that silo
Is paralyZed. She looks strong and
healthy, but lies all day on a couch, and
has to be carried about in an invalid
chair. She shrieks with pain whenever
limb Is moved. Her parents have taken
her to Rt least dozen physicians---son,
Of the most eminent men in London--Cnd
all agree that she is In perfect health.
One of them plainly told her, after most
exhaustive examination, that she was
simply wasting her parents money, and
added that he would gladly give Gl00 In
exchange for such q constitution as hers.
Some years ago Napoleon III, while
emperor Of France, permitted q French
physician to experiment on o convict who
was sentenced to death. The condemned
man was delivered to the physician, who
had him strapped to a table and blind
folded, Ostensibly for the purpose of being
bled to death. Near the dropping head
was placed vessel Of water, which, II
means of a siphon arrangement, trickled
audibly into q basin below, at the same
moment that q superficial scratch with
a needle was made right across the cul-
prit's neck. Perfect silence was main
tained, and In six minutes the man was
dead.
KILLED BY JOKE.
Gen. Johnston, leader OF the Confcd-
crate armies, tells Of case that cane
under his own observation He, when q
lieutenant, learned that some acquaint-
ances had concocted o plan for testing tho
power of imagination on the human sys-
tenn. The plaa was that half dozen OF
them should, apparently by accident. s=ect
some particular individual and comment
on his appearance Of extreme illness. a
healthy young nian was selected for ex-
pertinent, and the result Of this joke was
that he sickened and died.
Another case is said to have occurred in
university town in Scotland. A college
porter having made himself particularly
obnoxious TO the students, they resolved
to be reyenged upon him. For this puT-
pose they decoyed him into a room un0
night, held mock inquiry into Ills bad
behavior, and, with great outward show
Of solemnity, sentenced him to he decap-
itated--the execution to take place al once.
The terrified porter was led 10 qr.tt
corner, where stood a huge blOck nnd y
keen nx; he was then blintlfoldcd ard
compelled to kneel nnd ley his head on the
block. The executioner struck him ca mo
neck with q wet towel, and the porter
was lifted up-dead!--N New York Tome
Journal.